"Oh how many of them had fallen into that chasm..." (C) M. Tsvetaeva Instead of markdown we need something what I name as flat structural text format. <t

"Oh how many of them had fallen into that chasm..." (C) M. Tsvetaeva Instead of markdown we need something what I name as flat structural text format. <text>Base level text</text> <text li="disk">Bulleted list item</text> <text li="numeric">Numeric list item</text> <text li="numeric" level=2>Another list item</text> ... <text>Inline <span bold>bold</span><span bold italic>bold and italic</span></text> ... In this case it will be trivial[1] to write WYSIWYG editor that has 1:1 mapping between markup and screen representation. That 1:1 mapping is mission critical for human editing - our mental model of text is flat. In fact that markdown is an attempt to provide such flat structural text representation. Ugly one we shall admit. Microsoft Word, AFAIU, uses also flat DOM model internally, that's why its WYSIWYG is quite good. HTML version 2 was last version that allowed unambiguous WYSIWYG editing of HTML. The one that had no idea of CSS. [1] http://blocknote.net http://blocknote.net - WYSIWYG HTML editor that uses internal flat model.